Tuesday, September 23, 2014

From the product description, the BD/DVD will feature English subtitle.

Saint Seiya is a legendary series from the manga that was first published in 1986. This film is a reboot of the entire Sanctuary saga (first saga of the series), with new storytelling and redesigned saint armors (called Cloth).

We’re not stopping there however! In our ongoing effort to make sure that Ultra SFIV is the greatest version of SFIV yet, we bring you a completely new, completely free and most importantly completely fun version of your favorite 44 characters in Omega Mode!

For those wondering, Omega mode is a completely new mode in which every character has been modified and outfitted with new normal and special attacks, resulting in a refreshing take on the characters you’ve come to know and love over the last six years. As the primary goal for this mode was fun, we placed more emphasis on making the characters feel new, than on their balance. This means that strong, fan favorite attacks such as Ken’s Shinppu Jinrai Kyaku and Sagat’s Tiger Raid make their return while other characters such as Zangief gain new abilities, like being able to combo into his command throws.

Now I know the next question that comes to mind is, “will this be playable online?” My answer to that is “it most definitely will be!” But as this mode is for fun, Omega mode will be restricted to unranked matches only. Additionally all official Capcom tournaments and Capcom Pro Tour affiliate tournaments will use the default Ultra balance, not Omega mode, as the tournament standard.

- Umehara said Evil Ryu makes this matchup easier than Ryu.
- Umehara played rock-paper-scissors to give away signed rough sketch from the artist of his manga.
- There're so many people coming to watch him at the booth.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax T-shirts from a collaboration between Sega and Cospa has been announced today.

These T-shirts, priced at 6,000 yen ($55) each, will be released in late November, although four of them (Asuna, Kirito, Shizuo, Miyuki) will be sold in advance at Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival 2014 on October 5.

If you want to import, keep checking your favorite online export shops on Monday or so. Don't wait, because these things will sell out fast and you don't want to win DBFC tournament at Evo 2015 without wearing one!

A new Shining Resonance promo that focuses on showing characters and some gameplay was showed yesterday at Tokyo Game Show 2014. Although we have the video but let's wait for the official one.

This's the imperial princess Excela (voiced by Nana Mizuki) that was revealed yesterday. She's said to be "cool and beauty twin tail character" by the producer. It's also hinted that her theme song will be revealed this Sunday.

Shining Resonance will be released on December 11. Sonia is expected to be playable in Beast Note's most anticipated fighting game Blade Arcus.

Our speculation was true. It's confirmed that the silver hair girl on the box art is in fact the princess of the empire, and is voiced by Nana Mizuki (Japan's highest-earning singer voice actress). She's songstress of the enemy side. Inevitably, she's Kirika's rival and will most likely have her own song.

Additionally, Kizuna Diagram system is revealed. From the pictures, it seems like you can set a personality to a character which will affect relationship between party members and can trigger an event.

Shining Resonance will be released on December 11. Sonia is expected to be playable in Beast Note's most anticipated fighting game Blade Arcus.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Daigo Umehara came to TOPANGA TV tonight, to promote his activities at Tokyo Game Show 2014 (beside Capcom's stage show and MadCatz's tournament and exhibition, he'll also promote Dell computer). As usual, he also played some Ranked Match.

It's announced that PS Vita version of Akiba's Trip 2 (Japanese version of Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed) will be added to Free Play section for Japan's PlayStation Plus members starting today. The game will be available to pick up from September 17 to October 14.

Akiba or Akihabara district not only is the holy ground of otaku, but also plays important role in JFGC. The legend of young Daigo Umehara started here 20 years ago (as you probably already read from his manga). A fighting game location test usually takes place here. And you'll see even more fighting game event here after the opening of e-sports cafe early this year.

Akiba's Trip is an adventure game set in virtual Akihabara district so this's one of the best opportunities to get to know and navigate the place without having to actually go there.

(Note that the English version of this game is already released on PS3 and Vita, and will be released on PS4 this Holiday season.)

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Fuudo, Bunbunmaru, Kami-chan, Sentosu, Nagisa, Shiki "Maou" Aoki were invited to play Sega's arcade MOBA game Wonderland Wars at Japan Gamer's Live on August 31.

Although Sega says that this's the world's first arcade MOBA, we say it's not quite true. Square Enix's Lord of Vermilion III already did this in 2013. LoV series introduced MOBA-like gameplay to the arcades since 2008.

Anyway, Wonderland Wars is quite different from Dota or LoL. You don't need to destroy Nexus. Your team only needs to have more "life" than opposing team after 6 minutes.

There're 3 things you can do to reduce the life of opposing team.

Attack opposing team's castle (A.K.A. Nexus)

Destroy an opposing team's turret

Kill a member of the opposing team

Other differences

You use stylus to control your character, and also to draw the line of your projectile.

You can summon a giant who can instantly destroy a turret if let live long enough.

Wonderland Wars is currently under development. This location test version only had 4 characters (out of 12 planned?). The release date is currently "February 2015."

The videos above show viewpoint of Bunbunmaru who was in the same team with Fuudo and Maou. The team is full of serious gamers so another team couldn't even get a single win out of around 7 games.

Theme song of Shining arcade game will be showed. Our speculation is Blade Arcus theme song sung by Asami Shimoda who voices Pairon in the game.

It doesn't appear that Satomi Akesaka involves anything at all, so it's possible that she'll sing Blade Arcus theme song together with Shimoda. Since her main job is voice actress she most likely voices an unannounced character. They sing Shining Force Cross theme songs.

With the announcement of Wao quitting TOPANGA League A, up to six players will be promoted to TOPANGA League A this season. The 5th and 6th place will play a FT7 4-man round-robin play-off tournament with Fuudo and Dashio to determine two players who will play in League A.

Promotion and Relegation
1st place - To League A
2nd place - To League A
3rd place - To League A
4th place - To League A
5th place - Round-robin play-off
6th place - Round-robin play-off

Fuudo will have one game advantage over Dashio
5th place will have one game advantage over 6th place.

It looks like this's point allotment system for the weapons. You can raise the magic potential for an ability such as raising max MP. Vice versa, you can raise physical attack potential for an ability such as add damage.

You can rank up specific tuning via combat.

You can add Skill Piece to an Armonix. Skill Piece such as Vital can raise max HP 10%.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

It's reported by GamerBee that Daigo Umehara will compete in Capcom Pro Tour Taiwan on September 6. The tournament acts as one of four qualifers (China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) that will lead to Capcom Pro Tour Asia Finals on October 25-26 in Singapore.

We usually don't pay attention to Ranked Matches, because fame seeking players tend to upload only their winning matches–you can't really tell who's good or bad. But this's an exception because these are all the matches that happened on Tuesday night between them, and we got it directly from Fenrir's own stream.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

It's revealed today that TOPANGA will hold an USF4 online tournament on September 6 (starting 14:00 JST). Two rounds (afternoon and evening) of 64-man tournament are planned. Niconico will be streaming free of charge.